Dec 12, 2024 - Sale 2690

Sale 2690 - Lot 224

Unsold
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
MAURICE SENDAK (1929-2012)
Return of the Bee-man to his mother.

Preliminary design for an illustration in Frank R. Stockton's The Bee-Man of Orn (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 43. Watercolor and sepia ink on paper. 335x315 mm; 8½x8 inches, matted and framed to 12½x11¾ inches. Signed in lower right image.